grimoire...same root as grammar

[Michael Bailey]

and, by a commodious vicus of recirculation,
so would the Tarot deck be a collection of diagrams,
and its (degenerate, decky-dant) successor, the playing
cards used by gamblers also...

I keep flashing back to that great RA Wilson passage
(in _Masks of the Illuminati_)
where the meaning of the suits and cards comes home
to the OTO postulant as he plays cards with his uncle...
too bad the book doesn't have "search inside" enabled
at Amazon, and I can't remember what happened to my copy....